Cheap, cheery, delightfully delectable, and great for kids, cookie mixes in a jar supply thoughtful, homemade gifts that can be customized to suit tastes (and dietary preferences) and made in bulk so that everyone on your holiday list—including the mail person, neighbors, the kids’ soccer teams, and your coworkers—is covered. Believe it or not, you can make a Primal/paleo, gluten and grain-free version of cookie mix in a jar. Simply swap out the refined sugar, all-purpose flour, chocolate or other add-ins that aren’t made with compliant ingredients, and suggest to your recipients that they use butter, ghee, coconut or avocado oil as the fat in their cookie dough—and you’re golden. 

Pecan Sandie Cookie Mix in a Jar

Time: 5 minutes

Servings: Mix makes 16 cookies

Ingredients

For the cookie mix:

• 10 tablespoons brown sugar Swerve
• 2 cups almond flour
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 2 scoops Primal Fuel Vanilla Coconut Whey Protein 
• 2 scoops Primal Kitchen Collagen Fuel Drink Mix - Vanilla
• ⅓ cup pecans

For dusting on baked cookies (optional):

• 2 tablespoons Swerve confectioner’s sweetener
• 2 tablespoons Primal Fuel Vanilla Coconut Whey Protein

Additional ingredients people will need to complete the cookie dough:  

• ½ cup cold unsalted butter (8 tablespoons)
• 5 teaspoons full-fat coconut milk
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Equipment needed:

• 32-ounce mason jar*

*Ingredients in the amounts listed above fill one 32-ounce mason jar. Double, triple, quadruple, etc., this recipe depending on how many cookie mix jars you need.  

Instructions

• Layer the cookie mix ingredients into the mason jar (in the following order, as desired):

1. Brown sugar Swerve
2. Almond flour
3. Baking soda
4. Salt
5. Whey protein
6. Collagen Fuel
7. Pecans

• Seal the mason jar. 
• On a gift tag, write: Visit https://www.marksdailyapple.com/low-carb-pecan-sandies/ for baking instructions.
• Affix the gift tag as well as a baggie of the dusting ingredients, if desired, to a festive piece of string. Tie string around the top lip of the mason jar.

Nutritional information (per cookie): 

Calories: 271

Net Carbs: 2 grams

Fat: 25 grams

Protein: 8 grams

Nutritional information calculated using Cronometer. 

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• Gluten-free Keto Donut Holes 
• Pumpkin Spice Keto Donuts 
• No-Bake Paleo Blueberry Collagen Cheesecake 
• No Dairy Golden Coconut Cheesecake Bites 
• Keto Holiday Buckeyes 
• Collagen Chia Seed Pudding 
• Paleo Pecan Sticky Buns